Heal Your Brain

Clare E. Steffen Ed.D. BCC

Description

This spirituality book helps you heal your brain in ninety days by choosing to integrate a healthy lifestyle that maintains and sustains wellness.
Offering a holistic approach to brain health, Dr. Clare Steffen provides a blend of widely accepted and evidence-based approaches in conjunction with her own tested techniques. In Heal Your Brain: Ninety-Day Devotional, she suggests an array of ideas to keep your brain healthy, along with ways to repair and maintain brain health. Dedicating 90 days to prayerful reflection will assist you in developing a sense of well-being.
If you’re struggling with family issues, trauma, grief or loss, ADD/ADHD, substance use recovery, shame, or some other condition, you can learn to manage and regulate your brain health. Steffen details methods she’s cultivated and developed after working thirty years as a psychologist, naturopath, counselor, educator, addiction counselor, life, wellness, business, and brain coach.
Steffen underscores the importance of brain health, from prevention to maintenance, recovery, and beyond. The practices detailed in Heal Your Brain provide an important part of the healing process and give you a jump-start in rewiring your brain to live an integrative-sustainable life. It asks you to make a commitment to yourself to be well and to establish a philosophy for living based on wellness by choice. Integrate these methods into your approach to daily living and sustain wellness for life.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Living
• Inspirational
• Philosophie et théologie
• Holistic health

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 04 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664278356
• Langue: English

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HEAL YOUR BRAIN
Ninety-Day Devotional
 
 
 
CLARE E. STEFFEN, ED.D., BCC
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Clare E. Steffen, Ed.D., BCC.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7834-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7835-6 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022917085
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 11/09/2022
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Clare E Steffen, EdD, ND, CADC II, ICADC, CNHP, CMH, BCC, CBHC is a psychologist, naturopath, drug and alcohol counselor, educator, life coach, and brain and wellness coach. Dr. Steffen is the author of multiple books: Dancing through the Darkness: The Cognitive Treatment of Shame ; ADHD: A Guide to Natural Healing ; Live Your Life with Gratitude and Grace: An Integrative-Sustainable Guide for Choosing to Live Well ; and Social and Emotional Intelligence: New Thinking, New Choices in Life Coac hing .
Dr. Steffen actively promotes message music and has authored CDs that highlight and integrate meditative music and guided imagery. She currently cowrites country, Americana, blue grass, jazz, world, folk, spiritual, and other styles of music. In 2019, Dr. Steffen founded the Round The Globe project to bring hope, encouragement, and global healing the world through music. Thus far, she has co-written songs with artists from over 30 different countries, and they have over 500 songs in their catalog. Round The Globe has won several awards from different organizations including a legacy award for the impact their music will have on future generations. To learn more about this amazing project please visit www.roundtheglobemusic.com and visit roundtheglobe.hearnow.com to download their music. Dr. Steffen has been a practicing psychologist, counselor, and coach for over thirty years and maintains a private practice in Oregon. In recent years, she has been providing teletherapy through different telemedicine companies. Over the span of her career, her work has been primarily focused on trauma recovery in its many forms, family wellness, and brain health. She has cross-trained in several areas that allow her to integrate a wellness and psychological perspective.
Dr. Steffen is the founding and executive director of coachingchoicecollege.com and ce4coaches.com, which is dedicated to training life, wellness, business, and career coaches. For further information about the college, the mission, and offerings that are available, visit www.coachingchoicecollege.com . She is an adjunct professor at a private Christian university and believes that our spiritual lives are deeply connected to our mental/emotional and physical health. As an educator, her approach to treatment has always focused on learning across the lifespan. She has authored many articles on the importance of this personal and intimate relationship. Her continued interest in the topic of choice and achieving and sustaining brain health are the impetus for this book. Developing healthy a relationship to self and others and creating a sustainable wellness lifestyle continues to be in the forefront of her work with individuals, families, couples, and groups.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1Brain-Based Being
Chapter 2Social and Emotional Intelligence and Healing Your Brain
Chapter 3Cognitions of Choice: A Philosophy for Living That Supports Brain Balance
Chapter 4Trauma, Grief, and Loss
Chapter 5Healing the Shame Identity and Balancing Your Brain
Chapter 6ADHD: The Myths We Have Created That Disrupt Brain Balance
Chapter 7Recovering from a Self-Medicating Lifestyle and Healing Your Brain
Chapter 8Healing Our Relationships
Chapter 9The Big Five of Healthy Relationships
Chapter 10Considering Religion and Spirituality to Seek Balance
Chapter 11Message Music: A Universal Genre
Chapter 12Family of Choice
Chapter 13Integrative Sustainability: A New Model for Wellness
Chapter 14Maintaining Brain Health
Chapter 15Ninety-Day Devotional: Brain Health
Chapter 16Body and Exercise Health
Chapter 17Spiritual and Religious Health
Chapter 18Conclusion and Final Words of Encouragement
ANNOTATED CONTENTS
1. Brain-Based B eing
Description: Our brains are our most powerful organ, yet little attention is paid to keeping our brains in balance. When this vital organ is out of balance, we experience imbalances in mind, body, and spirit. Scientists argue over the concept of the mind and tend to focus on physical well-being, but to be in balance, we must also be well within our minds and brains. This chapter guides you to reflect on your personal definition of being, and examine how it influences the thought-feeling-behavior paradigm. Connecting to our authentic selves allows us to focus on brain balance and establish a foundation for brain health.
2. Social and Emotional Intelligence and Healing Your B rain
Description: The concept of emotional intelligence is not new; as far back as the 1930s, Thorndike described social intelligence as the ability to get along with other people. Some view emotional intelligence as an array of noncognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures (Reuven Bar-On). Emotions are described as involving the subjective experience, the physiological response, and the behavioral response.
In this chapter, you will learn about the four factors of emotional intelligence, along with the five key components, and explore ways to measure and develop EI skills and apply them. The integration of social and emotional intelligence (SEI) will assist you in developing increased self-awareness and self-management. Through improvements in insight and self-control, you can gain a deeper level of understanding and the ability to access critical and creative thinking. Learning to apply SEI and both critical and creative thinking will assist in establishing brain balance.
3. Cognitions of Choice: A Philosophy for Living That Supports Brain Bal ance
Description: In this chapter, you will learn about the New Choice Thinking Model that assists in brain balance. Learning how to apply the Cognitions of Choice (COC) will assist in the development of critical and creative thinking. You will learn how to access the choice cognitions to create a philosophy for living and to improve your life and lifestyle. With this choice system, you can learn how to restructure unhealthy habits and patterns of thinking or feeling. Armed with the Cognitions of Choice, you will learn to invite, investigate, and initiate change. Thoughts occur at three levels of process—automatic, meta, and conscious state—and the COCs can be utilized to address change and to manage and regulate thoughts at all three levels of processing. Being able to increase confidence in your ability to make healthy life choices will assist in and support brain balance.
4. Trauma, Grief, and Loss
Description : Trauma impacts so many aspects of life functioning. Providing you with the tools needed to reclaim and empower your life can be the first step toward healing and wellness. Between 7 and 13 million Americans experience post-traumatic stress disorder. All aspects of their lives can be negatively impacted by trauma. Everything in life is relational.
Addressing trauma from a relational and brain-based perspective will provide you with the necessary tools to assist in reshaping the experience and retraining your brain to begin your healing process. Trauma is experienced globally, and it is timely that we contribute to changing worldviews and empowering people.
5. Healing the Shame Identity and Balancing Your B rain
Description: This chapter offers a cognitive approach to overcome shame. A mini-survey was conducted to bring clarity and personal definition to the emotion shame. The survey yielded many different situations and contexts in which an individual experiences shame. The difference between shame and guilt, and shame as a feeling versus an emotion was explored. The text mostly focused on shame as an emotion or identity. The paradigm offers that shame is a learned behavior that can be unlearned. The influences that assist in the development of shame are presented. The thought-feeling or faulty-learning model is presented, with ways to change thought patterns. The chapte